Secure Passkeys vs WP Fail2Ban Redux

Secure Passkeys is a powerful WordPress plugin that enables seamless passwordless authentication using WebAuthn technology. By eliminating the need for traditional passwords, it enhances security and improves the user login experience. With support for biometric authentication, security keys, and device-bound credentials, Secure Passkey provides a robust and user-friendly solution for modern authentication. Unlike traditional password-based authentication, Secure Passkey leverages cryptographic key pairs to ensure secure logins. The private key remains securely stored on the user’s device, while the public key is registered with the WordPress site. This method protects against phishing attacks and password breaches, ensuring that only authorized users can gain access. Secure Passkeys integrates effortlessly into WordPress, allowing users to register and manage their passkeys from their profile settings. Once registered, users can log in using their fingerprint, face recognition, or a hardware security key without the need to remember or enter a password. Features Passwordless Login: Secure authentication via WebAuthn with biometric devices, security keys, Touch ID, Face ID, and more. Enhanced User Experience: Password-free login for a smoother user journey. Integration Support: WordPress default login form WooCommerce login page MemberPress login form Easy Digital Downloads login form Ultimate Member login form Admin Management: Administrators can delete, activate, or deactivate users directly from plugin settings or user profiles. Passkeys Reminder Notice: New option to enable or disable the passkeys reminder notice in the WordPress admin area for users who have not yet enabled passkeys. Activity Logging: Monitor activity logs and track last login/registration of passkeys. Multiple Passkeys: Supports multiple passkey registrations per user, with the option to set a registration limit or allow unlimited registrations. Role Restrictions: Restrict and exclude specific user roles from using passkey authentication. Passkey Autofill: Passkeys automatically appear as a suggestion when clicking the username field — no button click required. Rate Limiting: Configurable rate limiting on login attempts to protect against automated attacks. Long-lived Session: Control whether passkey logins set a persistent session cookie or end when the browser is closed. Customizable Settings: Adjust timeout settings for passkey registration and login. User Verification: Enforce user verification for enhanced security. Frontend Customization: Easily customize frontend themes or add your own with basic frontend skills. Theme Support: Supports pre-built themes like YOOtheme (UIkit) for frontend shortcodes. Shortcodes: Embed passkey login and registration forms on custom frontend pages. Passkey Display: Show passkey details in admin user lists and profiles. Multisite: Supports WordPress Multisite and single-site installations. Database Optimization: Option to allow or disallow automatic deletion of old challenge records and activity logs (configurable schedule). Requirements WordPress 6.0 or newer. PHP version 7.4 or newer. License Secure Passkeys is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later.

WP Fail2Ban Redux records various WordPress events to your server’s system log for integration with Fail2Ban. This plugin is (mostly) a drop-in replacement for WP fail2ban by Charles Lecklider. While WP fail2ban is a great plugin, there are a number of improvements that could be made. In order to facilitate these improvements, a major refactoring of the codebase was necessary. The core functionality between WP Fail2Ban Redux and WP fail2ban remains the same. WP Fail2Ban Redux is considered to be mostly a drop-in replacement, because all constants have been replaced with filters, and will, possibly, require some upgrade work. Don’t work it’s as simple as implementing the constants. The following events are recorded by default: Failed XML-RPC authentication attempts. Successful authentication attempts. Failed authentication attempts — differentiated by a user’s existence. Pingback errors. The following events can be enabled via filter: Pingback requests. Blocked user enumeration attempts. Authentication attempts for blocked usernames. Spammed comments. Extra documentation is available on the WP Fail2Ban Redux GitHub Wiki.